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Today's topic, The Cat Bear and
music. Things are getting hard for some

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podcasters, especially for podcasters that are
creating musically. They know how to make

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a podcast more than talk. Podcasting
is supposed to be a variety of things.

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When it comes to music, things
can be challenging. I knew from

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the beginning that I couldn't play copyrighted
music, so I chose to play the

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keyboard and make my own music.
I chose the category music commentary. The

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podcast The Cat Bear is not really
a music show like Ksey Ksum's America's Top

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forty. It is not radio.
It is talk about music, artists and

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songs. It is not the record
album. It is not the song that

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you hear on the radio playing.
And I didn't think I would get as

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far as I have gotten because my
podcast is not radio. Outside from the

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Internet, I have a few fans. They said they didn't want to hear

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talk, they wanted to hear music. One of my fans said, Gil,

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you better pull out that keyboard.
So I started making my own music

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for intros to start my podcast.
I have tried to make my own jingles.

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I'll just say it's really been an
experiment. At first, I didn't

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want to spend time making music.
I wanted to go ahead and just do

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the podcast because playing music and editing
can be a lot of work. Then

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you have to write the things you
say and all that. Those things take

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time, and you want to give
the podcast company the best that you can

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give, and you want to give
your audience your best. So I have

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used royalty free music to speed things
up. Sometimes using what's already out there

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is good too. You'll be helping
others to be heard talking about your favorite

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song, and using your own music
is good. But each platform has its

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own rules and guidelines. Everybody's worried
about copyright. Then again, people are

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not worried about it. I read
somewhere that Spotify let you include music as

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part of the podcast as long as
you are exclusively on Spotify. Things keep

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changing constantly. One day the answer
may be yes, and another day the

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answer maybe no. If you have
permission to play your favorite artist in your

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podcast, make sure you write in
your notes by permission. Some artists are

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under Creative Commons license. You might
can play those artists, but I wouldn't

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monetize because, like I said,
things are always changing. I'm Gael Nobles

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and you're listening to the cat bear